But his two victories in China and Monaco this year, and other races he could have won, have just been brilliant, yet the car has been so unreliable. To an extent, Daniel has had done to him what he did to Seb Vettel at Red Bull.ĭaniel has been so unlucky with reliability. That's where we are getting to - and I think that's hit Ricciardo hard.
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I said in my 2019 preview feature on Sky F1 in Abu Dhabi that Max Verstappen is threatening to become the fastest all-round driver in Formula 1. Not in terms of taking the championship because the team doesn't have that kind of resource, but I wouldn't count him out of some surprise results in 2019. He could be one of the surprises of the season. It'll be a strong car next year and he'll be simply driving for pleasure again. I've got a feeling that Kimi will cause all sorts of surprises in the Sauber. Ferrari had to take the decision to move on. Kimi's pole position in Monza was impressive - obviously there was a bit of a slipstream from his team-mate which was a source of controversy at the time - and won well in Austin, but I think you have to look back over the last few years where he's scored around 65-80 per cent of his team-mate's points. If you look at Ericsson, Hartley and some of the other drivers, the pressure comes off with nothing to lose and the natural juices flow a bit better. Some of Raikkonen's best performances have come since it was clear he was out at Ferrari for 2019. Watch every 2019 practice session, qualifying and race - only on Sky Sports F1. If he has another gear left, like Lewis, then he'll need to select it. He's now got a Ricciardo-style situation brewing next year with Leclerc coming along. But it's in wheel-to-wheel combat that he's missing judgement and he needs to sort that out. If Kimi Raikkonen is Peter Pan and looking so young and fresh at 39, Seb is the opposite in a way, although I believe he's still got the speed. Of course, it's been a lot closer than that.
If you'd just landed from outer space and looked at the numbers, you'd say that Mercedes and Hamilton dominated the season from the way it turned out. If you look at his start and restart in Spa for example along with demonstrating great speed, and his general performances up to Hockenheim where his championship crusade fell apart, Vettel has driven very strongly at times but he has made a lot of fundamental errors too.įerrari faded in 2017 and then lost their way a little with 2018 updates, but Sebastian faded this year.
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